Various systems and methods for performing a restore operation. For example, one method involves receiving information identifying a set of data objects to restore. The method also involves dividing the set of data objects into first and second subsets of data objects. After the first one of the subsets of data objects is restored from a backup computing system to a source computing system, the method involves determining whether a deduplication operation is performed on the source computing system. The method also involves delaying restoring the second subset until after the deduplication operation is performed on the source computing device.